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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
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Empirical legitimacy as core of comparative democracy research

Frontiers in Political Science
Legitimacy is a central resource for all political systems. This include democracies as autocracies. For democracies, you need the acceptance of the normative concept of democracy by the citizens.
Gert Pickel, Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel
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The birth of modern Norwegian police law

Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2023
In the article ‘Norwegian police law, crime prevention and its (need for more) democratic legitimacy’ John Reidar Nilsen argues that Norwegian police law has lacked democratic legitimacy, and in some respects still does.
Geir Heivoll
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Demokratyczny status sądowej kontroli konstytucyjności prawa

Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2016
Constitutional review of legislation is the power to examine statutes for their conformity with the constitution. This competence is performed by the judiciary.
Wojciech Ciszewski
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APPOINTING JUDGES THE EUROPEAN WAY [PDF]

, 2007
This Article looks at methods of judicial selection in Europe as a way to contrast and perhaps better understand and improve the systems of judicial selection used in the United States.
Volcansek, Mary L.
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Znaczenie europejskiej inicjatywy obywatelskiej w kontekście deficytu demokracji w Unii Europejskiej

Politeja, 2018
The Importance of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the Context of Democratic Deficit in the European Union One of the instruments introduced into EU law on the basis of the Treaty of Lisbon for the first time, aimed at strengthening the democratic ...
Tomasz Kubin
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Clauses Not Cases [PDF]

, 2006
Clauses Not Cases is a Response to Robert Post and Reva Siegel, Questioning Justice: Law and Politics in Judicial Confirmation Hearings, Yale L.J. (The Pocket Part), Jan. 2006. In Questioning Justice, Robert Post and Reva Siegel make three claims. First,
Barnett, Randy E
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Majority Rule, Compromise and the Democratic Legitimacy of Referendums

Swiss Political Science Review, 2018
Cheneval and el-Wakil () defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the concerns of certain citizens and end up reflecting the ...
R. Bellamy
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source